banthafodder wrote:This is pretty mindblowing. It doesn't fit in well with Lucas giving up control though. However it may lead to some better movies than the last three. Even better new non clone lego sets!

He has said he wanted to get out of the big budget movie business.

Chief wrote:Star Wars out of Lucas' hands? I say BRING IT ON.

This times one thousand. Can you imagine the possibilities if someone with imagination and creativity Started making movies set in the Star Wars universe?

dWhisper wrote:Though it will be nice seeing a lot of the EU stuff basically negated.

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? That in the making of the new movies, they're going to overlap all the EU stuff? And if so, why is that a nice thing?

While I don't take any particular joy in having EU stuff overwritten when I know there are a lot of people who enjoy it (I enjoy SOME of it), I don't think it ultimately will be that big a deal. (Never was for Star Trek.)

I will admit to a part of me that WILL take a bit of pleasure from the reactions of certain very STRIDENT EU fans that I've known if that happens, though. I'm not proud of that, especially, though it has less to do with my feelings about the EU than it does my feeling about specific people that obsess over it and judge you for not holding it in the same regard.

dWhisper wrote:Though it will be nice seeing a lot of the EU stuff basically negated.

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? That in the making of the new movies, they're going to overlap all the EU stuff? And if so, why is that a nice thing?

While I don't take any particular joy in having EU stuff overwritten when I know there are a lot of people who enjoy it (I enjoy SOME of it), I don't think it ultimately will be that big a deal. (Never was for Star Trek.)

I will admit to a part of me that WILL take a bit of pleasure from the reactions of certain very STRIDENT EU fans that I've known if that happens, though. I'm not proud of that, especially, though it has less to do with my feelings about the EU than it does my feeling about specific people that obsess over it and judge you for not holding it in the same regard.

Lucas has always treated the EU with disregard, and basically negated ro removed a lot of it. He'll use elements of it, stuff like Coruscant or some of the aliens in the background. The whole onion layers of canon thing.

I do enjoy some of the EU, I really do, but for the most part, it's muddled and often garbage. Sub-par writers, plots that don't make sense, and the continual need to reinvent basic things about the story.

I'm amazed Disney and Lucasfilm managed to keep this a surprise until the official announcement. That said, I'm interested to see how this sequel trilogy will play out. How interested will depend on the time period (I can't see recasting the original trilogy characters and doing a direct sequel shortly after Return of the Jedi going well.) and creative talent. I also sincerely hope the Hollywood Reboot Disease doesn't infect Star Wars. The Star Wars universe is plenty big enough to tell new stories for years to come without rebooting the franchise every few years like Batman or Spider-man.

dWhisper wrote:Lucas has always treated the EU with disregard, and basically negated ro removed a lot of it. He'll use elements of it, stuff like Coruscant or some of the aliens in the background. The whole onion layers of canon thing.

I do enjoy some of the EU, I really do, but for the most part, it's muddled and often garbage. Sub-par writers, plots that don't make sense, and the continual need to reinvent basic things about the story.

I can definitely see what you mean. Though it would just seem silly to me to overlap EU stuff when the Star Wars timeline is expansive enough that I doubt it'd be necessary.

And apparently, the Thrawn trilogy is now my next read (once I finish the New Jedi Order). Gotta see what all the talk is about.

The Thrawn Trilogy is easily the best of the 3rd party (EU) novels, IMO.

However, as much as I'd love to see those books made into film, I feel sadly it's ship has sailed. As has already been said in this thread, the principal cast is now too old. And who wants to see our beloved characters re-cast with new actors? (I sure as hell don't).

I wish in the mid-90s that is where Lucas could've focused his return to SW Film. Timothy Zahn laid out a fantastic template of a story of how to place the universe and its characters after the original trilogy. Instead we got the start of Lucas's bastardization of the classics, starting with SW SE in '97.